Very busy weekend with all the hospital action and lots to do before I head off to a conference next week, but I managed to stop off at the cinema and catch Wall-E on the way home. It was great and did make up for the 40 (yes 40) minutes of waiting around through out of focus adverts with the lights on (the brightest spots of which were the trailer for Madagascar 2 and the groovy Pizza Hut advert). Wish I hadn't read a review (don't click unless you've seen it!) before I saw it though. There was also an excellent short called Presto before the main film.

We had a quick bite with Holly and Anna on the way home and now we've just watched Toy Story which is still as good as it was the first time.

It was fun to go from the latest Pixar to the start of it all. I remember finding the cgi animation slightly weird when it was new but now we're so used to it that even the early one looks normal.

On a linguistic note, I'm a bit shocked at how many people are pronouncing 'Wall-E' as 'Wally'. Sigourney Weaver assured me on the radio it should be Wall followed by E rather than 'wally the word you use in England'. But the terrible 'please don't watch pirate movies' ad introduced him as 'Wally' and even Philip French told his readers that it's 'pronounced Wally' today. To be fair, it's not 100% clear given the way Wall-E pronounces other words in the film.

B-)